One of the best Photoshop alternatives has arrived on Windows.

One of the most highly regarded Photoshop alternatives is now available on Windows. Affinity Phototoday launched its free public beta for Windows users, allowing anyone to download the popular pro photo editing software.

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No I dont, I use Photoshop - CS6. However it is costly to go over on the subscription method and therefor many people are looking at alternatives. The link I posted is obviously not the only alternative so one would have to figure out what suits best if you dont want to go the Photoshop route. I have invested too much time and money into Photoshop so I am unlikely to change.

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Started playing with it and I'm very impressed. Will have to go through a learning curve; fortunately there are lots of tutorials available. It's so similar to Photoshop, even the keyboard shortcuts are the same. (I just wonder why Adobe are not suing them, perhaps on the verge of that.)
Seems to be quicker than PS and I like the "live" changes as you move sliders. Most of the PS plugins also work here. Amazingly its only a once off $50 ((R644.00) when I purchased it 2 weeks ago.) Cheaper than PS elements and you have channels, masks, etc. basicly 99% of PS proper and a few more things. If familiar with PS, you will find you're way around quite easily.
I was told they are working on a Lightroom-replacement as well. Don't know when it will be ready. Lots of Tuts on YouTube and a full pdf manual available from their website (over 600 pages)

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Nope had a quick look at it, but sorry haven't given DxO a serious tryout.

I had a malfunction with my desktop the other day and the HDD had to be formatted and OS re-installed. I then had to re-install most of my programs including my CS5 and guess what, I couldn't find my original disk. Somehow when we moved offices to our home, they "lost" their way. After trying to find some "free" alternative I gave up and with much gnashing of teeth, I have now subscribed CC Photoshop.

Glad I did. Photoshop is something I am very used to and at least this way I get all the latest updates etc. At the end of the day the monthly $10 is not a disaster and Phoptoshop is still a brilliant program.

I have used DxO for about ten years. Its ability to extract shadow detail from a RAW used to be unparallelled, but I think that the competition have now caught up with it. It has some nice features - adjusting converging lines is brilliant, for instance, but DxO is otherwise quirky software - typically French. They do things just to be different and when you make simple changes to your hardware, DxO misbehaves. I bought a new monitor, for instance, and the slider control to select thumbnails disappeared, rendering DxO effectively unuseable. DxO are paranoid about people pirating their software and make it extremely hard to do so. In doing that, they also make it extremely hard for legal licence holders like myself to work. Their FilmPack product used to work as a nice plugin with Photoshop, but now it will not - lest someone uses it illegally. You have to use it from within DxO, or as a stand-alone application. And for a simple effect, it is not worth the effort. I hardly use DxO anymore at all. Photoshop is what I use most, and then DPP4. If DPP4 accepted my Photoshop plugins, I would probably swap across completely, despite its clumsier user interface.